APOPLEXY.—Permanent infirmity, arising from apoplexy, a cause of separation, [253], [470].
APPEARANCE.—Spaces in the spiritual world are appearances; distances, also, and presences are appearances, [158]. The appearances of distances and presences there, are according to the proximities, relationships, and affinities of love, [158]. Those things which, from their origin, are celestial and spiritual, are not in space, but in the appearances of space, [158].
Obs.—Those things which in the spiritual world are present to the sight of spirits and angels are called appearances; those things are called appearances, because, corresponding to the interiors of spirits and of angels, they vary according to the states of those interiors. There are real appearances and appearances unreal; the unreal appearances are those which do not correspond to the interiors. See [Heaven] and [Hell].
APPROPRIATION of evil how it is effected, [489].
ARCANA of wisdom respecting conjugial love; it is important that they should be discovered, [43]. Arcana of conjugial love concealed with wives, [166], [155*], [293]. Arcanum relative to conception, which takes place though the souls of two married partners be disjoined, [245]. Arcanum respecting the actual habitation of every man in some society, either of heaven or hell, [530]. Arcana known to the ancients, and at this day lost, [220]. Arcana revealed, which exceed in excellence all the arcana heretofore revealed since the beginning of the church, [532]. These arcana are yet reputed on earth as of no value, [533].
ARCHITECTONIC ART, the, is in its essential perfection in heaven, and hence are derived all the rules of that art in the world, [12].
ARISTIPPUS, [151*].
ARISTOTLE, [151*].
ARMIES of the Lord Jehovah. Thus the most ancient people called themselves, [75].
ARTIFICERS in the spiritual world, [207]: wonderful works which they execute there, [207].